Linotype-machine.



PATENTED MAY 12, 1903.

P. T. DODGE.

LINOTYPE MACHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 28, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

NITE STATES- iatented May 12, 1903.

ATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP T. DODGE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE MERGENTHALER LINOTYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

LlNOTYPE-MACl-HNE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,914, dated May 12, 1903. Application filed January 28, 1903. Serial No. 140,867. (No modeL) characters on a slug or linotype cast therein,

and finally returned to the upper end of the magazine.

The improvement is designed more particularly for application to machines of the Mergenthaler type, such as represented in Letters Patent of the United States No. 557,000; but it is to be understood that it is also applicable to all analogous machines in which circulating matrices are employed. In this class of machines various complicated constructions have been devised to permit the use of two or more sets or fonts of matrices carried in a corresponding number of magazines, usually combined 'orunited to form a large multiple magazine. In some cases these multiple magazines have been mounted so as to be movable in relation to the distributing devices at the top, so that the one set of matrices in use may be delivered into that magazine or section that is set apart for them. In other cases the magazines have been stationary; but "a complicated mechanism has been employed for the double distribution of the matrices.

In carrying my invention into effect I employ two or more fixed magazines, a single fixed distributing mechanism, anda movable intermediate guide or conductor so arranged that the matrices falling from the distributer may be directed into either one of the magazines.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l represents a vertical cross-section of mechanism embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation.

Referring to the drawings, A, B, and O represent three inclined stationary magazines designed to receive and hold the matrices D. These magazines may be in all respects like those employed in an ordinary Mergenthaler machine, each consisting of upper and lower parallel plates grooved in their proximate 5 5 faces to receive and guide the edges ofthe matrices, or they may be of any other suitable construction. They may be separately secured to the machine or connected or tied together in any appropriate manner.

E represents the stationary distributor-bar, having its lower edge provided with horizontal permuted teeth to engage and sustain the matrices as they are advanced along the bar.

F represents the horizontal screws, lying parallel with the bar for the purpose of engaging the edges of the matrices and advancing them along the bar to their proper-points, where they disengage and fall in the usual manner. o 7

G represents my intermediate guideor conductor seated between the distributor and the magazine in position to receive the falling matrices at its upper end and to deliver them at its lower end into one or another of the magazines. It is divided internally by transverse or upright partitions into a series of channels, the lower ends of which will register with and deliver into the corresponding channels or grooves'in the magazine, this to So prevent the matrices from turning over sidewise or shifting laterally so as to enter improper channels in the magazine. The guide G is supported at its ends on horizontal pivots H and so that its lower end may be swung across the upper ends of the magazines and brought into register with one or another, as desired.

In the ordinary use of the machine each of the magazines will contain a complete font or 0 set of matrices differing in style or size from those in the other magazines. The matriceswill be delivered from one'magazine or another by any ordinary or suitable mechanism.

The guide G will be adjusted to deliver into 5 Monster end of the same magazine, and consequently when the matrices are returned through the distributor they will enter the magazine from which they were delivered.

The devices for delivering the matrices 10o from the magazine are foreign to the present invention, which is restricted to the features herein shown and described.

The essence of the invention resides in the employment of an intermediate movable guide or conductor, and it is manifest that it may be varied in form and in details of construction provided it retains, essentially, the mode of operation herein described.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- 1. The combination of a distributer, a plurality of magazines and an intermediate movable conductor adapted to deliver the matrices from the distributer to one magazine or another, as demanded.

2. The combination of a distributer, a plurality of magazines below the same and an intermediate pivoted conductor having its upper end arranged to receive the matrices hand, this 15th day of January, 1903, in the 25 presence of two attesting witnesses.

PHILIP T. DODGE.

WVitnesses:

M. A. DRIFFILL, JOHN F. GEORGE. 

